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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 106 0 Browse Search
Pausanias, Description of Greece 74 0 Browse Search
Polybius, Histories 74 0 Browse Search
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) 42 0 Browse Search
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 36 0 Browse Search
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan) 34 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) 28 0 Browse Search
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War 26 0 Browse Search
Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo 14 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) 14 0 Browse Search
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Euripides, Alcestis (ed. David Kovacs), line 507 (search)
Admetus enters from the palace, dressed in black and hair cut in mourning. Chorus-Leader But here, Admetus, the king of this land, is himself coming out of doors. Admetus I wish you joy, son of Zeus and child of Perseus' blood. Heracles Admetus, king of Thessaly, I wish you joy as well. Admetus If only I could have it! I know you wish me well. Heracles Why are you wearing the shorn hair of mourning? Admetus I am about to bury someone today. Heracles God keep misfortune from your children! Admetus The children I begot are alive in the house. Heracles Your father was of a ripe old age, if it is he that has departed. Admetus My father lives, Heracles, and my mother too. Heracles Surely your wife Alcestis has not died? Admetus There is a double tale to tell of her. Heracles Do you mean that she has died or is still alive? Admetus She is and is no more. It causes me grief. Heracles I'm still no wiser: you speak in riddles. Admetus Do you not know what doom she is fated
Euripides, Alcestis (ed. David Kovacs), line 477 (search)
Enter by Eisodos A Heracles with his characteristic lion-skin and club. A servant goes in to tell Admetus of the arrival. Heracles Strangers, citizens of this land of Pherae, do I find Admetus at home? Chorus-Leader Yes, Pheres' son is at home, Heracles. But tell us what need brings you to Thessaly and to this city of Pherae. Heracles I am performing a certain labor for Eurystheus, king of Tiryns. Chorus-Leader Where are you bound? What is the wandering you are constrained to make? Heracles I go in quest of the four-horse chariot of Thracian Diomedes. Chorus-Leader How can you do that? Do you not know what kind of host he is? Heracles I do not. I have never yet been to Bistonia. Chorus-Leader You cannot possess those horses without a fight. Heracles But all the same, I cannot decline these labors. Chorus-Leader Then you will either kill him and return or end your days there. Heracles This is not the first such race I shall have run. Chorus-Leader If you defeat their m